Green Bell Pepper
Green Bell Pepper appears in 1,170 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Green Bell Pepper appears in 1,170 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 1,170
- catalogued products
- #601
- usage rank of 247,206
- 421
- named brands represented
- 55%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
High-volume listing for Green Bell Pepper - usage rank #601
- Usage rank
- #601
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 55%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,170 products listing it (mean slot 17.3). Green Bell Pepper usually falls in the lower half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 19.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Green Bell Pepper spans 421 named brands and is led by the Condiments group. Start with 20oz Vegetable Tray SSK; 365 everyday value, cantina style salsa; 365 everyday value, cantina style salsa, kick o' jalapeno when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.1/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
421 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 897 of 1137 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Green Bell Pepper
Across the 1,170 products on this site that list Green Bell Pepper, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.8x more often with Green Bell Pepper than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Green Bell Pepper products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 120 | 10.3% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 43 | 3.7% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 34 | 2.9% | 4.5% |
| Yellow 5 | 30 | 2.6% | 4.8% |
| BHA | 23 | 2% | 0.7% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Green Bell Pepper
Products Containing Green Bell Pepper
16 busy labels from the 1,170 indexed products that list Green Bell Pepper:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Green Bell Peppers”)
Green Bell Pepper sits among other busy catalog rows (1,170 products, mean score 96.1/100). Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Green Bell Peppers; Cider Vinegar; L-cysteine. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
Next steps from the Green Bell Pepper page
1,170 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Green Bell Pepper are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Green Bell Pepper before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Place Green Bell Pepper next to “Cider Vinegar” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Green Bell Pepper
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Green Bell Pepper? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Green Bell Pepper, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#601 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Green Bell Pepper? ▼
Green Bell Pepper ranks in the top decile by product count (#601 of 247,206), appearing in 1,170 indexed products led by Condiments. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Green Bell Pepper so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Green Bell Pepper appears in 1,170 products (#601 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Green Bell Pepper). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.